The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-07-07
HONOLULU FIRE DEPARTMENT.
RecOEnme ndatIOus of the Chairman
of Elections for Submission TO the
Board of Representative at Its AM
muRI Meeting

Section 332 The Chief Engineer and tn
two Assistant Engineers shall be electe
annually, on the first Monday of June, b
the certificate of members of the Fire De
partment.-[Civil Code.
Article IL. Any person becoming
| member of the Department, and who i
properly equipped, shall, on presentation o
| certificate to that effect to the Secretar,
| of the Department, receive from him /
certificate that he is member of the Ho
nolulu Fire Department, and as such en-
! titled to all the privileges which the laws
regulating the Department grant to its
members, and the title of this shall be
| Certificate of Membership. - Depart
ment Constitution.
Previous to and until the oath of last
month / was one among those who enter
tanned the belief that the elections for En-
gineers to the Honolulu Fire Department
for several years past have been legally
conducted, but after consulting with Mr..
Justice Preston of the Supreme Court, who
read a copy of the Department Constitu-
ton which | handed him, together with
the statutory provisions relating to the
Department, and heard the views ex-
pressed by His Honor, felt obliged to
change the conclusions / had previously
entertained.
According to the provisions above set
forth, which must be read together in
order to be better understood, no person is
a member of the Department who merely
becomes a member of some company until
I,ah hoe 70 Of hor
Ship from the Secretary of the Depart
ment Also, that certificate members"
if in good standing and equipped are the
only qualified voters at the annual cleo
tons for Engineers.
l am not aware that such certificates as
contemplated by Article II have ever been
issued heretofore, nor that any application
for the same was ever made. But the dl-
plomas or pictorial charts delivered to the
members signed by the Chief Engineer and
Secretary of the Department are not such
as contemplated by Law. The Secretary of
the Department alone gives the certificate
of membership, the form of which muse
conform to said Article IL.
To entitle a person to receive certif-
cate of membership he shall first equip
himself, and to entitle him to vote for En-
gineers, he must be a certifcated member
so that voters at the last election who
were not equipped ought never to have
voted
Clearly there are two kinds of member
ship in the Department. First, that OF be-
coming an admitted member of some COM |
pany, and secondly, that of being certif |
Gated as member of the Department.
In view, therefore, of the non-observance
Of the laws now governing elections, and
also of the question touching the validity
IF the same, being raised for the first time
II the history of the department, | recon-
mend tor adoption the following preamble
Ind resolution
WHEREAS, Section 332 of the Civil Code
provides that the Chief Engineer and the
wo Assistant Engineers shall be elected
on the first Monday of June by
he certificate members of the Fire Depart
nent; and it appearing that Article IL of
he department constitution has hitherto
lot been adhered to in regard to the
quipment and certifcating of the mem
'ers
Resolved, That this department declare
he election for engineers held June 9th
lltimo nall and void, and that the seats of
thief Engineer and First and Second As
istant Engineers be declared vacant.
| also recommend for election of the
3oard the following nominees, to serve I'M
il their successors are legally elected:
Mr.. Charles B. Wilson,
Acting Chief Engineer;
Mr.. julius Asch,
Acting First Assistant Engineer.
Mr.. Frank HuStace,
Acting Second Assistant Engineer.
also recommend for adoption thefollow-
ng forms of certificates:
CERTIFICATE OF EQUIPMENT.
Honolulu, -....-.... 1873
70 the Secretary of the Honolulu Fire De-
partment
This is to certify that "a By, member
If &C d. Company No. -, has properly
,quipped himself, and hereby requests a
certificate as a member of the department
Foreman.
Attest:
.................. Secretary.
CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP.
Having received the assurance that { a